Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Undernews

Public broadcasting - *PBS Slashes Budget by 21% After Federal Funding Cuts*
memeorandum

Speaker Mike Johnson caught between lawmakers and Trump in GOP map fight (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Speaker Mike Johnson caught between lawmakers and Trump in GOP map fight* — It's a tough spot for the speaker, who is trying to placa...
Political Wire

Trump-Putin Summit Will be Hannitized - Brian Stelter: “No matter what happens at President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, Trump will have Sean Hannity there right a...
Bonddad

July industrial production: meh! - - *by New Deal democrat* Industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock,” since so much p...
The Verge

Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble - As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we're in on...
El Paso Matters

KTEP hosts fundraiser, Texas Tech adds funds for El Paso cancer center - This week: KTEP seeks funds after federal cuts, county adopts 2026-31 plan, city unveils climate draft and TTU Regents add funds to El Paso cancer cente...
Axios

Here's who Trump and Putin are bringing to the "high stakes" standoff in Alaska - President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin aren't heading to Alaska alone. *The big picture:* Trump's entourage for the bilateral meeting featu...
Glasstire

So Deep A Bond: Texan and Mexican Artists at Cobertizo Art Residency - Down a red gravel road, we set off. Rows of ash and eucalyptus trees framed the way, which was spent chatting about the latest events in Mexico City, whe...
The Hill

South Korea’s anti-American president is coming to Washington - Lee, as president, has wasted no time chipping away at the relationship with the U.S.
SCOTUSblog

You say “a-mee-cus,” Justice Breyer says “a-mike-us” - As readers of this site are well aware, the Supreme Court is deeply divided on a wide range of consequential issues. How should the justices consider his...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 203: “The Future Is Plastics” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Ted is back from his ICE deportation gulag! On “The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan,” we’re finishing ...
The Week

'Actual poop' – the messy ending of 'And Just Like That...' - Reviewers slam 'unfunny and hateful' finale to 'Sex and the City' reboot
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Washington DC sues after Trump officials’ ‘hostile takeover’ of city police - Pam Bondi says DEA chief Terry Cole in charge of Metropolitan police amid White House crackdown on crime Washington DC was seeking an emergency restraini...
Mediaite

CNN Fact-Checker Ridicules ‘Absurd’ Trump Claims as President Jets Off to High-Stakes Putin Meet - Daniel Dale ridiculed what he called "absurd" claims by Trump as the president was jetting off to a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Pu...
Mediagazer

Q&A with independent journalist Molly White, who writes the tech and crypto newsletter Citation Needed, which has ~29K subscribers, including ~2,400 paid (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab) - Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: *Q&A with independent journalist Molly White, who writes the tech and crypto newsletter Citation Needed, which has ~29K subscri...
Courthouse News

I like cops - Greetings to the 1.2 million police officers in the United States, and especially to the 765,000 sworn officers on the streets: One street cop for every 44...
WhoWhatWhy

DC’s Attorney General Tells Police Chief to Ignore Bondi’s Takeover Order - [image: Donald Trump, Press Conference, Pam Bondi, White House] Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday night tried to usurp the leadership of Washington, D...
Raw Story

'Talk about a miss!' MSNBC buries ICE over 'ham-fisted' stunt - A decision by agents representing the Department of Homeland Security to show up outside a facility where California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) was holdin...
Daily Dot

“Every pixel equals a cry for justice”: Wplace users quickly unite in international support for Gaza - [image: wplace superman palestine pixel art] Did you know there’s an interactive art game the whole world is playing right now? It’s called Wplace.live,...
Salon.com

Trump’s “American Hell” is everywhere - His declining reality show mentality is destroying the fabric of our nation — and the press is complicit
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Emergency tariff authority - the emergency being the president isn't getting enough treats and awards. Donald Trump cold-called Norway’s finance minister ...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Rewire

Patients in States With Abortion Bans Are the Biggest Users of Abortion Telemedicine - In a new study, 84 percent of online prescriptions went to people living in abortion-ban states. The post Patients in States With Abortion Bans Are the B...
The Conversation

Afghans in US face uncertainty after the cancellation of their humanitarian relief - Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 9 - *A sorry mix of superstition, cult bragging, and bad theology* Baptist preacher William Miller predicted that Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. Th...
Al Jazeera English

Israel’s Ben Gvir filmed threatening Marwan Barghouti in prison - Palestinian officials call Israeli threats against jailed leader Marwan Barghouti, an "unprecedented provocation."
Techdirt.

Trump Destroys Whatever Was Left Of U.S. Corporate Oversight, Calls It “America First Antitrust” - While there was a lot to criticize the Biden administration about, it did at least try to shift the balance back toward antitrust reform (see: Lina Khan), ...
First Draft

No, You Don’t Gotta Hand It To Trump - Several examples of media working hard to enable Trump
Alternet

'Idiots': How a TN Republican's complaints about 'the Left’s violence' could backfire - Reeling from a federal campaign finance investigation, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles landed approval for a legal expense trust fund to pay nearly $120,500 he owes...
Space City Weather

Gulf tropical disturbance to bring Houston an uptick in rain chances, followed by more typical August weather - In brief: Invest 98L, the Gulf tropical disturbance, will bring an enhanced chance of showers or storms to Houston today and Saturday, but nothing much mor...
Houston Public Media

Crypto energy usage (Aug. 15, 2025) - On Friday's show: Bitcoin mining in uses a lot of power, but no one can say just how much it's using in Texas. We find out why. And our non-experts break d...
Capital & Main

Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t Immune - Vaccination gaps in 16 counties leave some communities exposed as children return to school. The post Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: One War Ended, Another Continues - Starting things off with a surprising strip from VJ Day, August 15, 1945. Given the normal distribution channels of the time and the fact that there’s no d...
Vox

Why Trump thinks DC can’t govern itself - Just a few years ago, the movement for Washington, DC, statehood was gaining steam. In 2020 and 2021, Democrats in the House passed bills to make DC the 51...
Angry Bear

Improving Social Security Options - Dean Baker: Don’t Buy the Scare About Social Security. “The increase in spending on Social Security from 2033 to 2034 (measured as a share of GDP) is 0.0...
Bracing Views

Something Is Rotten in the States of America - Look No Further than Colossal Pentagon Spending and Perpetual War BILL ASTORE AUG 14, 2025 Something is Rotten in the States of America. America’s war budg...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Public Lands Are Our Public Commons - Author and poet Terry Tempest Williams urged the nation to recognize the value of public... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Public Lands Are Our Public Co...
San Antonio Report

‘Heat may linger a little longer this year,’ NWS meteorologist says - Highs are forecasted to range from 97 degrees to 100 degrees over the next week, with morning lows in the mid to upper 70s. ------------------------------ ‘...
naked capitalism

Links 8/15/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Could He Be Any More Needy?’ Trump Mocked for Call to Norwegian Official Over Nobel Prize -
Daily Howler

BREAKING: As a public official heads north to Alaska... - * FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025* *..."every third Friday" is here: *Last week, the timing of our medical mission underwent a change. We've advanced from "an e...
Skeptophilia

The collapse - You've undoubtedly heard British philosopher Thomas Hobbes's famous quote that in the past, our forebears' lives were "nasty, poor, brutish, and short." ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Tactical decency - I believe that Christians are called to be salt and light — not to be the kinds of people that no one wants to sit next to on an airplane.
Off The Kuff

The end (of the quorum break) is near - And getting nearer. The House Democrats who fled Texas to block GOP redistricting appear likely to return in the coming days, according to a press release ...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Mother Jones

Tribal Nations Scramble to Save Clean Energy Projects - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cody Two Bear, who is Standing Rock Sioux, s...
ProPublica

Some States Restrict the Oil Industry From Taking Mineral Owners’ Earnings. Not North Dakota. - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. ...
Slate

I Didn’t Want *And Just Like That… *but I Didn’t Want It to End, Either. - Thus concludes one of the most baffling TV shows in recent memory.
Scheerpost.com

US-Based Companies Announce Record Number of Impending Layoffs - "DOGE Actions" was the number one reason cited by employers for their planned job cuts.
American Prospect

PragerU Wants to Capitalize on PBS Defunding - The right-wing educational resource is available for classrooms in ten states and wants to go ‘toe-to-toe’ with PBS Kids. Will teachers go for what the com...
Grist

The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet - The U.S. is drifting away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?
The Root

With Federal Agents Flooding D.C., These Viral Interactions Should Have Everyone Worried… - Since the start of President Trump's takeover of D.C., more than 100 arrests have been made in the predominately Black city. Read more...
Crooked Media

Can Newsom Stop Trump’s Steal? - The post Can Newsom Stop Trump’s Steal? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Daily Poster

Why Everybody Should Care That Men Are Losing Their Deep Friendships - David Sirota’s full interview with journalist Sam Graham-Felsen on the far-reaching political implications of the male loneliness crisis.
Counterpunch

The President’s Bogeymen - ICE casualties are not found only among the thousands arrested, detained or deported. Simply knowing that people are being abducted based on how they loo...
jobsanger

The Takeover Of D.C. Is Just The Beginning -
World Socialist Web Site

In run-up to Trump-Putin talks, Russian offensive encircles Ukrainian units in Pokrovsk - Despite the talks, there will be no lasting diplomatic resolution of the NATO-Russia conflict, which can only be ended on a progressive basis by an anti-wa...
Informed Comment

Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East - London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: The UK Home Secretary is Lying - Here is a little antiseptic daylight on Yvette Cooper’s arguments that Palestine Action, a nonviolent, direct-action group, deserved the “terrorist” proscr...
Portside

Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug - Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug jay Thu, 08/14/2025 - 21:58
Brad Blog

Newsom Unveils 'Election Rigging Response Act'; FCC Renews License for Sock-Puppeting Sinclair: 'BradCast' 8/14/2025 - It's your democracy at work, for better or worse, on today's BradCast! [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] FIRST UP... At a lively rally at the...
Popular Resistance

End The Colonial Occupation Of Washington D.C - President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to deploy the National Guard to Washington, DC, framed as a crackdown on crime, marks a dangerous escalation...
Claytoonz

Historical Vision - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Election Law Blog

“Texas Democrats say they will return to state once session ends, California unveils retaliatory map” - Texas Tribune: Texas House Democrats who left the state in protest of proposed congressional redistricting said Thursday they will return to the state a...
The NM Political Report

99.7% of residents tested near Cannon AFB have PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in their blood - This report is supported by NM Political Report, a nonprofit newsroom working to increase New Mexicans’ engagement in politics and public policy. Reporte...
ArcaMax

'if These Words Reach You, Know That Israel Has Succeeded In Killing Me' - "If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice." Those were the words circulated on X and voiced on-air by ...
Antiwar.com

Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska - Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review This week’s summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska is an opportunity for Russia and the West...
Reform Austin

Texas Democrats say they will return to state once session ends, California unveils retaliatory map - Texas House Democrats who left the state in protest of proposed congressional redistricting said Thursday they will return to the state after the Legisla...
Workers World

People’s Summit for Korea spotlights role of U.S. imperialism - [image: People’s Summit for Korea spotlights role of U.S. imperialism] Protest in center of New York City followed Peoples Summit for Korea, July 27, 2025....
Futurism

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Vocalize the “Inner Voices” of People Who Can’t Speak - New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do easier than ever before. In a new, grou...
Ballot Access News

California Governor Announces Plan to Ask Voters in November 2025 to Approve New U.S. House Districts - On August 14, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked the legislature to quickly pass a bill, providing for a popular vote on November 4, 2025 on a new set ...
Dissident Voice

Trump Said It: “There’s No Better Word Than Stupid.” - For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official U.S....
San Antonio Current

Texas Democrats say they'll return to Austin once California unveils its redrawn congressional map - Texas House Democrats are edging closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that's blocked Gov. Greg Abbott and his Republican allies from redrawing the s...
The AltWorld

Who enabled the process of “Greater Israel”? - In a recent interview with i24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he is “on a mission of generations” for […] The post Who enabled the pro...
NPR's Health Shots

This virus seems like it's no longer a problem. It's still a threat - A year ago, on August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Why are health experts so f...
CultureMap Houston

This Houston neighbor is the most moved-to U.S. ZIP code of 2025 - Houston has already proved it's one of the hottest destinations for Americans on the move, but a new study has revealed one neighboring city, *Cypress*, ha...
Second Nexus

Women Reveal The Dumbest Thing They've Witnessed A Man Believe About Women - Men... LISTEN UP! This is going to be an important life lesson for y'all. Now, it seems that many of you may have skipped or fallen asleep during heal...
OpEd News

Will Trump, Putin Meeting in Alaska Succeed? - Putin will push for formal recognition of Russia's territorial gains, including full control over Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and possibly more.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Chair Notices Motion to Censure Region 1 Alternate - Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila said Wednesday night he will formally notice a motion to censure Region 1 first alternate Austin Mar...
Deadline Politics

Gavin Newsom Out-Trumps Trump With A 2028 POTUS Campaign Launch By Any Other Name To Fight GOP Gerrymandering - “Today is Liberation Day in the state of California,” Gavin Newsom proclaimed today in downtown L.A. of the legislative effort to stop Donald Trump from “r...
Texas Standard

Texas House Democrats say they’ll end quorum break once California begins redistricting - More than 50 Democratic Texas House members have been out of state for nearly two weeks in an effort to block Republican-led legislation that would redraw ...
Church and State

World disaster exemplified by Sudan - It would’ve been so effective by simply making sure that women have their right to determine how many children they would have.
Progressive Army

Nueva reunión de Entidades del Comercio Exterior + ProComex - Nueva reunión de Entidades del Comercio Exterior + ProComex* El pasado martes 12 de agosto se llevó a cabo una nueva reunión de Entidades del Comercio Exte...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Wolf Street

Core Services PPI Explodes, Worst since March 2020, Causes Overall PPI and Core PPI to Explode - Food prices also spiked. Energy prices surged due to diesel, jet fuel, and industrial electric power. Ugly all around.
Sludge

DNC Chair Moves to Confront Corporate and Dark Money in 2028 Primaries - Here is the new resolution from DNC Chair Ken Martin targeting unlimited corporate spending and dark money, starting with the 2028 presidential primary.
MintPress News

African Stream Founder on US Censorship, Pan-Africanism and the Rise of Africa’s Resistance - Ahmed Kaballo joins MintCast to discuss the US-led takedown of African Stream, the rise of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Ibrahim Traoré, and the pa...
Dorf on Law

The Throttling of American Universities, the Bogus "Woke" Thing, and a Disastrous Breakthrough in Florida - The Trumpian attack on American universities has been relentless. Conservatives' ferocious hatred for critical thinking in all its forms has now been yo...
Mondoweiss

Israel swings between plans to occupy Gaza and resuming ceasefire talks - [image: Israeli soldiers prepare tanks for Gaza invasion on the Gaza border, May 14, 2025. (Photo: © Gaby Schuetze/ZUMA Press Wire/APA Images)]As the Israe...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redder Shade of Purple: Comparing Bush to Trump in the Midwest - How the presidential results in the Midwest have changed over two decades The post A Redder Shade of Purple: Comparing Bush to Trump in the Midwest appea...
Project Censored

Pulling the Levers of Power: How the Trump Administration Hijacked Public Broadcasting - Once a bipartisan resource, public media is now cast as an ideological threat under the Trump administration’s efficiency campaign. Jackie Vickery On May...
LareDOS

“Day of International Friendship” unites Canada, U.S., and Mexico in first-ever multi-national border actions - From Baja California to Quebec, Laredo and peaceful cross-border weekend gatherings challenge fear-based politics with community connection, art, and “radi...
Unlimited Hangout

Sabby Sabs - Sabby Sabs.
Texas Observer

Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass. - Governor Greg Abbott’s first special legislative session this year appears headed for an abrupt end after House Democrats fled the state to protest the T...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: There's No Such Thing As Society - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part I: The individualization of society through capitalism created a vast and seemingly inescapable loneliness
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Democracy Now!

Colombian Sen. Cepeda on Sentencing of Far-Right Ex-Pres. Uribe, U.S. Ally, Paramilitary Accomplice - Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was recently sentenced to 12 years of house arrest after he was found guilty of bribing imprisoned members of param...
High Country News

Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future - Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal. The post Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future appeared first o...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
Ian Welsh

The Nuremberg Movement - It’s time to start a movement for new Nuremberg trials. After WWII many Nazis were tried for genocide and various war crimes, and they were executed. I rem...
Environment Texas

State victories in 2025: rooftop solar, wildlife crossings, high value health care and more - In this moment, we’re taking great care to choose issues and solutions that Americans in every state — blue, red or purple — can get behind. The post Sta...
The Texas Signal

The Unending Tolls Of Being Undocumented In Texas - For undocumented Texans, the economic burdens keep growing
Trivial Knot

From the drafts: Data science as function fitting - Let’s dig out another article from my drafts bin, something I don’t think I was ever going to finish. This draft was titled “Data Science as function fitti...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lara Loomer repeats claim about Lindsey Graham being gay in deposition' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Sen. Lindsey Graham. Is he or isn't he? Lara Loomer says he is. *'It's well-known!' MAGA activist repeats salacious claims about GOP senator in depositio...
See You In 2020

What’s changed since Trump’s first term: the resistance forces have needed to give up “detente” - In July, Kim Yo Jong made a statement responding to the Trump White House’s suggestion that it could return to its old relationship with the DPRK. The W...
Progressive.org

Medicaid Is Not a Luxury, It’s a Lifeline - As someone with a chronic illness, I rely on Medicaid. It's no gravy train—and the system is forcing the disabled community into poverty.
Discourse

A Controversial Take on the Concept of "Summer" - Enough already. Simmer down.
DeSmogBlog

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead - Artificial intelligence (AI) use is spreading rapidly among oil drillers and other fossil energy companies — and some are now promoting plans to give “ag...
Greg Palast

All Washed Away: Trump drowns FEMA—Palast investigatesWatch this 1-hour special…then take swimming lessons. - The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump. Our investigation shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Tex...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
Infidel753

The gerrymandering crisis - We all know how this started. At Trump's behest, Texas Republicans came up with a super-gerrymandering plan intended to gain their party five additional ...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Time for Progressives to Become Active In the Democratic Party," by Thom Hartmann - *Friends,* *I couldn’t agree more with Diane Ravitch’s post amplifying Thom Hartmann’s urgent message: progressives must learn from the radical Right’s p...
Common Dreams

Common Cause Launches Fairness Criteria to Counter Mid-Decade Power Plays - Common Cause today reaffirmed its commitment to fair, people-powered democracy, making clear that independent redistricting commissions remain the gold s...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Denzel Washington has Cowboys takes - One of our finest living actors is a lifelong Cowboy fan despite growing up in New York, and as he made clear on ESPN’s First Take, he’s just as frustrat...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
NORML

Will Trump Reschedule Marijuana? - [image: Donald Trump][image: Donald Trump]President Trump said that his administration is considering changing marijuana's federal classification The pos...
Dissent Magazine

Is America a Democracy? - An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
The Grayzone

NYC’s Mayor Adams boasts of endorsement from ‘rabbi’ accused of child molestation - Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign quickly removed all references to a “rabbi” accused of pedophilia after eagle-eyed social media users discovered the charges...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
Crooked Timber

I guess that makes me…Horace Slughorn? - The Economist, having surveyed the current state of European higher education, has decided that the most significant problem is that the specialized gradua...
Liberation News

Cuba’s new Code of Childhood Adolescence and Youth proves putting people over profit is possible - 825,000 people, including many children, participated in creating the new Code,
The Militant

‘Working class in our millions must take the political power’ - SWP on Minneapolis ballot! ‘Oppose rulers’ drive to war’ Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Kevin Dwire was certified on the ballot...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN' EDITION. - *lol* Sorry I missed last week’s edition -- guess I'm really due for a vacation. Or a nervous breakdown. In either case, as St. Augie said, not yet. In ...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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